December 17, 2015Comments Off on JTC, U.P. judge reach settlement on 120-day suspension

The Judicial Tenure Commission and an Upper Peninsula judge have reached a settlement calling for a 120-day unpaid suspension and public censure for reducing or dismissing cases and tickets without hearings or consent of the prosecutor.

October 30, 2015Comments Off on JTC: Suspension and censure for Jackson District Court judge

A Jackson district court judge should be suspended for 30 days without pay and publicly censured for two unrelated instances of misconduct, according to a Judicial Tenure Commission’s decision and recommendation filed with the Michigan Supreme Court.

September 14, 2015Comments Off on Wayne judge charged with granting divorces without proofs

A Wayne County Circuit judge has been charged with granting divorce judgments without taking sworn testimony to establish jurisdiction or to show a breakdown in the parties’ marital relationship, according to a Judicial Tenure Commission complaint.

September 1, 2015Comments Off on JTC: Ypsilanti judge should be removed from office

14-A District Court Judge J. Cedric Simpson should be taken off the bench for interfering with his former intern’s drunken-driving arrest and for lying under oath during his misconduct hearing, says the Judicial Tenure Commission.

The Michigan Supreme Court will soon decide whether a Detroit judge should be removed from the bench. But the case involves more than alleged judicial misconduct. Underlying the charges is the sensitive — and sometimes misunderstood — issue of mental illness.